neshura said:
I follow certain guidelines on voting, I don't know if
anyone else does. Mine are (1) I vote if I understand enough
to solidly agree or disagree, or (2) I don't vote.

I wholeheartedly agree on voting guidelines. Here are mine:

Is this post helpful to the Perl Monks community?

if ($Post == $Question){
'Is it a thoughtful question?
Well-presented? Does it give a chance to show off
some cool feature of Perl?'
}

if ($Post == $AnswerToQuestion){
'Was it helpful to all users?';
'Was it cool and/or simple to understand?';
'Does it point to a useful module on CPAN?';
}

if ($Post == $Suggestion){
'Do I like it and want to show support for the idea?';
'Is it well-reasoned and appreciatively requested?';
}

if ($Post == $RunningThread or $Post == $SemiFlameWar){
'Does this post address a useful programming issue
("Will at least some users benefit from this
discussion (even if it is a bit heated)?")';
# Arguments are not bad, if they address a meaningful topic
}

if ($Post =~ /Clever | Witty | Entertaining/) { $Vote++ }

Is this post helpful to a specific member of the Perl Monks community?

A thoughtful answer to a question (reasonably
correct), especially if it makes a serious attempt
to be idiomatic.

Corrected code in the post (supplying working code
as part of the answer to a problem)

Did this post require a considerable amount of effort?

Benchmarking to compare two approaches

Long, thoughtful/thought-provoking

Analysis of/rewriting a large piece of code

Anything obviously time-consuming

Negative votes are rare from me, and only if the poster:

Was unjustifiably hostile or negative

Misrepresents someone's position, just to make him/her
look bad

Is excessively arrogant (we are all somewhat arrogant,
or we wouldn't deign to post code here at all ;-)

I've only been hanging around here for a couple weeks, but
it feels like home, because of the quality and community we
foster. Voting allows us to reward those who provide
useful, meaningful content. I try to use my votes to reward
those who make Perl Monks into a quality place of help and
learning.

When putting a smiley right before a closing parenthesis, do you:

Use two parentheses: (Like this: :) )
Use one parenthesis: (Like this: :)
Reverse direction of the smiley: (Like this: (: )
Use angle/square brackets instead of parentheses
Use C-style commenting to set the smiley off from the closing parenthesis
Make the smiley a dunce: (:>
I disapprove of emoticons
Other